Life made them enemies. Politics made them adversaries. One journey made them friends.
In 2006, Northern Ireland's bloody Troubles had dragged on for decades. Both the Catholic Republican and the Protestant Unionist sides are finally persuaded to seriously explore a peace agreement at UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's urging. Unfortunately, the principle negotiators, firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness, are decades-long enemies. However with talks about to start, McGuinness decides he must accompany his enemy to prevent him from being persuaded to abandon this chance for peace. With the Prime Minister and his MI-5 staff nervously watching from secret cameras, the two foes undertake a journey together in which they bridge the seemingly unbridgeable and change the course of history.
Critic Reviews:
- “The Journey functions primarily as a hopeful story of people overcoming their differences, but it also looks at how each man rationalized his own role in the endless violence.” – Chicago Reader
- “The bit of MI-5 chicanery behind the whole plot is a tad silly, but the sparring of Spall and Meaney is just worth the 94-minute investment.” – Globe and Mail
- “The Journey is here to give the world a shred of hope as it follows a fictitious account of Northern Ireland political archenemies finding a pleasant level of common ground” – Flickering Myth